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WSLS-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, serving the Roanoke–Lynchburg market as an affiliate of NBC. Owned by Graham Media Group , the station maintains studios on Fifth Street in Roanoke, and its transmitter is located on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County .
Since Roanoke was already served by NBC affiliate WSLS-TV (channel 10), WLVA-TV opted to become a primary ABC affiliate—Virginia's first, and the longest-tenured south of Washington, D.C. WLVA-TV and WSLS-TV split CBS programming until WDBJ-TV (channel 7) signed on from Roanoke in 1955.
On September 17, 2015, WFXR announced that the news department would launch on October 1, with the expansion of its weekday morning news program—retitled Good Day Virginia—from two hours to four (with the premiere of an additional two-hour broadcast from 5 to 7 a.m.) and the weekend editions of its 10 p.m. newscast—retitled WFXR News ...
10 34 WSLS-TV: NBC: getTV on 10.2, MeTV on 10.3, Start TV on 10.4, Movies! on 10.5 ... "Virginia: News and Media: Television". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
During the "Golden Age of Radio," the station carried programs from the NBC Blue Network, dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts. (The Blue Network later became ABC.) A partner FM station, 99.1 WSLS-FM, launched in 1947, largely simulcasting the AM station. WSLS-TV followed five years later on Channel 10.
WSLS-FM was the first FM station in the region, going on the air a year ahead of what is today 94.9 WSLC-FM. Through its early years, WSLS-FM mostly simulcast WSLS, an affiliate of the ABC Radio Network. In 1952, a TV station was added, Channel 10 WSLS-TV. Because the TV station was an NBC affiliate, WSLS-AM-FM switched to NBC Radio affiliation.
In 1960, WSLS presented the news with a different picture of the Democratic party on October 7 on the evening news. Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and Republican rival Richard Nixon were both stumping in Virginia. Several key Democrats were backing up Kennedy, including Governor Lindsay Almond and state party chair Sidney Kellam.
She interned at WDBJ in 2012, worked as a general assignment news reporter at ABC affiliate WCTI-TV in New Bern, North Carolina, from December 2012 until May 2014, [24] and then was hired by WDBJ in 2014 as a correspondent for Mornin '. [4] [25] Adam Laing Ward [26] (May 10, 1988 – August 26, 2015) was born in Daleville, Virginia. [27]